Day

This Practice Group begins with a "remembering" for inspiration, centering and connecting with ourselves. This is followed by a "check-in" when we share how we are, what we bring with us or what we hope to receive during the session. Activities include: short education exercises, empathy, role-plays, games and discussions. Participants can facilitate the group with prior arrangement with Rodger Sorrow

Time 7 - 9 PM Pacific

Donation $10

Open to all

When we have established our journey to hear others empathically and express ourselves honestly, requests are how we connect to the life in others and help others understand the aliveness in us. They are the practical tools we can use to deepen understanding and heart connection and transcend conflict in real time in the real world.

This is where we use all our skills and awareness and in many ways represents the most spiritual part of NVC practice. In advanced practice, requests help us discover our own attachments and suffering and give us the opportunity to transform how we move in the world and in our relationships. The workshop is designed to maximize learning through the introduction of concepts followed by exercises and role plays.

This is an Intermediate/Advanced training. Beginner track option is available with consultation and agreement. Please call Thom Bond at 212 496 3111 if you are interested in this option.

Deepening workshops of Nonviolent Communication (5x2 days, dates: May 12th/13th, June 9th/10th, August 16th/17th, September 16th/17th, Ocotber 14th/15th)
These 10 days will focus on “inner work” and exploring our relationships and dialogues with ourselves and situations that trigger us. The workshops will help you to discover choices we didn’t know we had and the tools to relate to yourself with a greater sense of compassion.
We offer the opportunity to come for the first workshop to get to know me and then sign up for the rest.
In my experience before we can connect compassionately with others we first need to learn to connect compassionately with ourselves.
The workshop is also an opportunity to become part of a group that continues developing NVC skills and consciousness over the time.

Einführungsseminar in GFK, für alle, die die die GFK kennenlernen möchten.

Create more intimacy, harmony and peace in your relationships using the power of Compassionate Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Learn how to express yourself through vulnerable honesty; listen to others with empathy; and develop a more forgiving and peaceful inner relationship with yourself. Discover the power of heart-centered communication in this experiential, fun, and compelling 4-week class.

COST: $20/session or $60 for 4-week series

DATES/TIMES: May 13, 20, 27 and June 3, 2008, each from 7 pm – 9:30 pm

Troisième partie : grandir dans la relation par la pratique du dialogue

Experiential class meets weekly to learn and practice skills and consciousness that transform conflict into understanding.

Benefit with less stress, more understanding and self confidence in handling conflicts. Learnable, Practical, Simple, Reliable Nonviolent Communication Tools offered in a lively, interactie format. Role plays, puppets, games may be used to increase ease in understanding and implementing new skills.Class will proceed with a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 12 participants. $60-40 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Nonviolent Communication är ett stöd för dig som vill lära dig kommunicera på sätt som skapar mer kontakt och mindre motstånd. Det är en kommunikationsprocess som hjälper oss att skapa en dialog där vi kan mötas i samförstånd. För den här kursen används ett digitalt klassrum där du får individuell feedback på din uppgifter. Där har du också möjlighet att dela funderingar och insikter med andra som går kursen.
Kursinnehåll: Varje vecka behandlar vi ett kapitel i boken Nonviolent Communication, ett språk för livet. Du gör övningar för att tillämpa det du lär.
Kursmoment och arbetssätt: Kursen är helt på distans, utan fasta träffar och vi möts via Internet. Du kan alltså befinna dig vart du vill så länge du har tillgång till Internet vilket innebär ett flexibelt lärande där du själv kan välja när du gör de uppgifter som följer med utbildningen.

This 6- to 12-hour class introduces key concepts, processes and experiences of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). We’ll
explore the key premises & concepts of NVC, experience the empathic
connection, see the process modeled, role play your personal
situations, and practice the process through exercises.

Designed for those
new to NVC, you will have the opportunity to see firsthand how NVC
gives us the tools to connect compassionately to ourselves as well as
others—even if the other person is communicating through judgments,
criticisms, demands, threats, etc. You’ll have the opportunity to
practice & develop your skills, to hone your ability to create
observations free of evaluations, to express feelings free from
thoughts, to own your feelings rather than blame another for them, to
let others own their feelings rather than take responsibility for them,
to distinguish our fundamental needs from the strategies we use to
fulfill them.

Throughout the day,
we’ll strive to live the process, not just talk about it. We’ll focus
on vulnerably expressing what is alive in ourselves, and on
empathically connecting to what is alive in others. The events of the
day are designed to deepen your awareness, your skills and your
consciousness of NVC.

NVC enables us to connect empathically with other people, and helps us
to help them to connect empathically with us. But what do you do when
you are feeling angry or upset to the extent that you don't want to
empathise with them? And they feel the same about you?! We call this
empathy collision, and on this day we will explore what is happening in
these situations and how we can get around this impasse. This day will
be practice oriented, to help you develop and rejuvenate your skill
with NVC.

Nonviolent (Compassionate) Communication by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg offers a clear, practical process for communicating without judging ourselves or others and to hear others' feelings and wants even though they might be hidden behind judgments and critici sm.

You will be learning the basic NVC steps as well as practice with your own examples.
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